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Election officials Sunday night released results for 10 of Iraq's 19 provinces, accounting for more than half the vote. Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr is making a strong showing.

U.S. and Iraqi commanders say the fight to push ISIS out of Mosul, Iraq is nearing its last few hundred yards.

Kurds in Syria have been U.S. allies but now they're making a deal with Russia. Russian flags are flying in Kurdish territory, a sign that the Kurds want a hedge in case the U.S. pulls out.

Since the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel and Israel's offensive in Gaza, there has been fighting on Israel's northern border too, where Hezbollah and Iran are eager to avoid all-out war.

The Iraqi government has declared a holiday in celebration of its victory over ISIS in the city of Mosul. But the group Amnesty International says the fighting has created a civilian catastrophe.

A large blast rocked southern Beirut after Israel vowed to strike at Hezbollah for a rocket attack in Israeli-occupied Golan Heights on the Lebanon Border.

Iran says Israel has killed one its most senior commanders in Syria's capital. It's believed to be the highest level assassination of an Iranian military leader since the war in Gaza began.

In Yemen, the Houthi are responding to the U.S.-U.K. air strikes, vowing their actions will not go without "punishment or retaliation." All of this is raising fears of a wider regional war.

The U.S. has conducted a series of retaliatory strikes against Iran-backed militants in Iraq and Syria. Our correspondent in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, has the latest.

An inmate who was imprisoned for 21 years in Syria's notorious Sadnaya prison shows NPR's Jane Arraf the concrete cells where he was held.